Negotiators have been meeting behind closed doors to craft another major trade deal. Advocates for consumers and the environment have been excluded from the process. Even our elected officials have had trouble getting access to drafts.

It's called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We don't know what's in it, but we know who wrote it: Corporate lobbyists.

As Sen. Elizabeth Warren said, "they have to be secret because if the American people knew what was going on, they would be opposed. I believe that if people would be opposed to a particular trade agreement, then that trade agreement should not happen."

The Effect of Endogenous Right-to-Work Laws on Business and Economic Conditions in the United States: A Multivariate Approach

Lonnie K. Stevans*Hofstra University

A state's right to prohibit unions from compelling employees to pay dues even when they are covered by a collective bargaining agreement has its basis in the 1947 Taft-Hartley amendment to the National Labor Relations Act (1935). Read more.

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The Compensation Penalty of RIght-to-Work

Recent proposals to advance so-called "right-to-work" (RTW) laws are being suggested in states as a way to boost economic growth. Read More.

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Your Representatives

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